248 ANIMAL REPRODUCTIONS, 
_tefles, a heart, a numerous affemblage of glands 
containing that acrid milky fluid which exudes 
through the fkin when the newt is irritated. Both 
the fore and hind legs have nearly as many 
foft folid parts, and hard folid parts or bones, 
as thofe of quadrupeds, and almoft as we have 
ourfelves. Finally, as a rudely circular bone 
furrounds and terminates the mandibles of our 
amphibia, from which a little regular foreft of the 
fharpeft teeth projects, Who could have fuppo- 
fed that this quadruped had the property of re- 
producing fuch an aflemblage of parts fo different 
among themfelves? But it is moft undoubted : 
for, befides being the firft difcoverer myfelf, I 
have witnefled it repeatedly. Lofing the whole 
four limbs at a blow is nothing to a newt, be- 
caufe it can reproduce them all, and reproduce 
them perfectly. I have taken the trouble of 
numbering the bones in thefe limbs, and found 
them to be ninety-nine: and ninety-nine have 
exifted in the four reproduced limbs when all 
were amputated from the trunk. Nay, let the 
four legs be completely cut off, and the whole 
tail, as alfo the two mandibles; the newt, in ad- 
dition to reproducing the limbs, will at the fame 
time repair the jaws and the tail. This fact, 
which has fo much the appearance of a paradox, 
and at firft fight feems more fabulous than the 
famous Lernean Hydra, I have repeatedly feen 
and 
